Packaging KDE window decorations, etc

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Feb 16 13:05:09 UTC 2007


Francois Aucamp wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:14 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>> However there are 2 different situations
>>  - we can have lets say kwin-DECORATOR
>>  - otherwise, let it be as is, since people are using the "search"
>> button just as you did François. Hence we have to make sure that in
>> the summary there is at least "KDE window decoration"
> 
> Using an appropriate summary is fine, but my concern is that it still
> doesn't solve potential package naming clashes (where the KDE theme/deco
> is a port of a Gnome one, or the other way around). 

How about not inventing problems that don't actually exist yet? (:

I think I like Arthur's suggestion of using kde-look categories, but such a
proposal will take time to flesh out, and you need not wait on that to
start packaging stuff now, imo.

-- Rex 





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